The prosecutor said: “He felt pretty gutted about it. He felt like he was being used and he was being bullied.

“Because of his faith as a Muslim, he did not feel able to tell anyone, not least because in his situation sex was never really discussed and he was scared his parents would tell him off or brush it under the carpet and just ignore it. So he kept quiet.

“It was only last year when the complainant was much older, a mature adult with young children of his own, that he felt able to speak out about what had happened to him.”

The barrister said the alleged victim felt he ‘had to speak out’ when he discovered Master had contact with children at a mosque.

He called the NSPCC who advised him to report the matter to the police, the court heard.

The second boy was assaulted in the 1990s when he was 14 or 15.

The jury heard how Master tried to coax the teen into his house, again under the pretence of needing help with DIY.

But when the defendant asked him an inappropriate question, the youngster left.

The boy next went to the house after the defendant spoke to his mother asking if he could help with accountancy papers.

Master is said to have taken the boy upstairs where he indecently assaulted him. The attack stopped when somebody was heard coming up the stairs, the jury was told.

The defendant is accused of making the same teenager go to his house again, where he assaulted him in his car.